Here’s a quick tip if you’ve needed to extract text from a PDF document.<\/p>\n
PDF files might not be easy to convert but if the PDF is of reasonably good quality (particularly if it is a scan of a hard copy). When you’ve got a hard copy and you’ve lost the electronic copy then you’re really left with two options:<\/p>\n
If you’ve got a larger document then you might want to go for option two and, if so, then you may be interested in a tool called FreeOCR<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s a pretty simple piece of software which you can use to scan a PDF and export text to Microsoft Word and, as the name implies, it is free. As long as you have Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1 then you don’t need to install anything else but if you’re running Windows XP then you will need the .NET framework installed to make it work.<\/p>\n Granted, it won’t preserve formatting and you’ll need some additional software to extract images but the text will probably be the bulk of the work for most document conversion needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a quick tip if you’ve needed to extract text from a PDF document. PDF files might not be easy to convert but if the PDF is of reasonably good quality (particularly if it is a scan of a hard copy). When you’ve got a hard copy and you’ve lost the electronic copy then you’re … <\/p>\n